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Use in varieties of Scots

creakin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 3.5 8.9 0 5.8 0 7.7
Number of occurrences167 6 0 1 0 2
Number of authors14 6 6 1 1

Occurrences of creakin in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
creakin, reachin airms on page 11

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
here's thirty or mair oan the creakin medium platform. on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
almost hear her brittle bones creakin as she turns roond. on page 140

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
fu o CREESH - tae creesh her creakin joints. on page 31

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
tit heid, e'en nou. Efter aw, creakin yetts hings lang. Bit leid da on page 9

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
s if sensin somethin tae. Th' creakin didnae stoap. It's wasnae me.
h mynd stairted tae race. Th' creakin. Th' bruise. Th' silence. Som
2 matches

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
id fir centuries. (Soond of a creakin coaffin lid bein lufted.) Phe on page 40

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
The bedroom door made a creakin soun an a black heid appeart on page 64

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
e gunales, the auld truck wis creakin an groanin, bit
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
den stoor frae the dowp o the creakin cairt that duntit ahin great
1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
up. An up, the steps ilk een creakin aneth his feet as the haill h
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
o’ listenin’ tae yer train creakin’ wa’ar nor th tinman, we an(2018) search twitter

Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
y, and da 'Meerie Meggie' was creakin an bucklin in da turbulent se
1 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Ma joints are creakin mair an mair, on page 52
The creakin an the crackin on page 53

2 matches

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